23 Bible Verses about Theocracy

Jehovah answered: Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king.

All the people answered together: We will do everything Jehovah has said. So Moses brought their answer back to Jehovah.

The Israelites would break camp or set up camp at Jehovah's command. They stayed at the place where the column of smoke stayed over the tent.

that you may enter into the covenant with Jehovah your God, and into His oath that Jehovah your God is making with you today.

Gideon answered: I will not be your ruler, nor will my son. Jehovah will be your ruler!

He took the book of the covenant, in which Jehovah's commandments were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said: We will obey Jehovah. We will do everything that he has commanded.

All the people answered together: We will do everything Jehovah has said. So Moses brought their answer back to Jehovah.

Gideon answered: I will not be your ruler, nor will my son. Jehovah will be your ruler!

But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected Jehovah as your king. You said to me: 'We want a (human) king to rule us.'

Moses told the people all Jehovah's words and legal decisions. Then all the people answered with one voice: We will do everything Jehovah told us to do.

Now you plan to fight against the royal authority Jehovah gave to David's descendants. You have a huge army! You have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods.

Jehovah answered: Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king.

You have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and distresses. You said to him: No! Place a king over us. Now then, stand in front of Jehovah by your tribes and family groups.'

But the people refused to listen to Samuel. They said: We want a king!

Three times a year all your men must come into the presence of Jehovah your God at the place he will choose. At the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. But no one may come into the presence of Jehovah without an offering.

One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to Jehovah.

Moses spoke to all the people of Israel: This is what Jehovah has commanded: Make an offering to Jehovah. Everyone who wishes to do so is to bring an offering of gold, silver, or copper. The offering could be of fine linen, blue, purple, and red wool; cloth made of goats' hair; read more.
rams' skin dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood; oil for the lamps, spices; balsam oil for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense. The offering could also be carnelians and other jewels to be set in the High Priest's ephod and in his breast piece. All the skilled workers among you are to come and make everything that Jehovah commanded: the Tent, its covering and its outer covering, its hooks and its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases; the Covenant Box, its poles, its lid, and the curtain to screen it off; the table, its poles, and all its equipment; the bread offered to God; the lamp stand for the light and its equipment; the lamps with their oil; the altar for burning incense and its poles; the anointing oil; the sweet incense; the curtain for the entrance of the Tent; the altar on which to burn offerings, with its bronze grating attached, its poles, and all its equipment; the washbasin and its base; the curtains for the enclosure, its posts and bases; the curtain for the entrance of the enclosure; the Tent pegs and ropes for the Tent and the enclosure; and the garments the priests are to wear when they serve in the Holy Place---the sacred clothes for Aaron the priest and for his sons.' Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel left Moses. Those who were willing and whose hearts moved them brought their contributions to Jehovah. The gifts were used to construct the tent of meeting, to pay other expenses, and to make the holy clothes. All willing, men and women alike, brought all kinds of gold jewelry: pins, brooches, earrings, signet rings, and pendants. They offered these gifts of gold to Jehovah. Those who had violet, purple, or bright red yarn, fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, or fine leather brought them. Those who could give silver or copper brought it as their contribution to Jehovah. Those who had acacia wood that could be used in the construction brought it. All the skilled women brought fine linen thread and thread of blue, purple, and red wool, which they made. They also made thread of goats' hair. The leaders brought different kinds of jewels to be sewn on the special clothes and the breast piece for the high priest. And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy (anointing) oil and the sweet perfume (balsam oil). The people of Israel, every man and woman whose hearts were willing, gave their offerings freely to Jehovah. This was for the work that Jehovah gave Moses orders to have done.

When you enter the land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance you will possess it and live in it. Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name. Go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him: I declare this day to Jehovah my God! I have entered the land Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us. read more.
The priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.

They held him in custody until they decided what to do with him.

Moses answered: Wait here until I find out what Jehovah commands you to do. Jehovah said to Moses, Tell the Israelites: Should you or any of your descendants be unclean from touching a dead body or away on a long trip. You may still celebrate the Passover. read more.
You will celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at dusk. Eat the Passover animal along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

So Moses brought their case to Jehovah. Jehovah said to him: Zelophehad's daughters are right. You must give them property of their own among their father's relatives. Turn their father's property over to them. read more.
Tell the Israelites: 'If a man dies and leaves no sons, turn his property over to his daughters. If he has no daughters give his property to his brothers. If he has no brothers give his property to his uncles on his father's side of the family. If he has no uncles, give his property to the nearest relative in his family. That relative will take possession of it. This will be a rule for the Israelites, as Jehovah commanded Moses.'

Now go to Pharaoh! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.

Jehovah said to Moses: Take Joshua son of Nun, a capable man, and place your hands on his head.

Give him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.

I AM JEHOVAH YOUR GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, YOUR SAVIOR. Egypt is the ransom I exchanged for you. Sudan and Seba are the price I paid for you.

There is no other nation on earth like Israel. This is the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so your people could live here.

Tell the sons of Israel: 'I am Jehovah. I will bring you out from under the oppression of the Egyptians. I will free you from slavery! I will rescue you with my powerful arm and with mighty acts of judgment.' I will make you my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out from under the forced labor of the Egyptians.

I fell down before Jehovah. Like the first, forty days and nights I did not eat or drink. This was because of all your sin you committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger. I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure from Jehovah. For he was wrathful against you to the point of destroying you! But Jehovah listened to me that time also. Jehovah was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him! So I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

Jehovah said: I forgive them, as you have asked.

Jehovah spoke to us when we gathered on the mountain. He spoke with a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. Jehovah gave us these words, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat tablets of stone and gave them to me. Fire blazed from the mountain, and you heard the voice coming from the darkness. Then your elders came to me.

After the fight Jehovah said to Moses: Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever. Moses built an altar. He named it: Jehovah Gives Me Victory. Then Moses explained: This is because I depended on Jehovah. But in future generations, Jehovah will have to fight the Amalekites again.

Jehovah said to Moses: Get even with the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your ancestors in death.

Have them make a holy place (sanctuary) for me, and I will live among them.

I will live among you in my sacred tent, and I will never turn away from you. So I will live among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Jehovah continued: Bring your brother Aaron and his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar to you from all the Israelites. They will serve me as priests.

Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tabernacle, and have them take a ritual bath. Dress Aaron in the priestly garments and anoint him. Consecrate him so that he can serve me as priest. Bring his sons and put the shirts on them. read more.
Anoint them just as you anointed their father that they can serve me as priests. This anointing will make them priests for generations to come.

Jehovah answered: Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king.

You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on the wings of eagles and brought you to me. If you will obey me and are faithful to the terms of my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, for all the earth is mine. You will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation. These are the words you must speak to the children of Israel.'

You declared Jehovah to be your God today. You said you would walk in his ways and keep his statutes, his commandments and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. Jehovah declared you to be his people and a treasured possession. Obey his commandments and receive his promise. He will set you high above all nations that he has made, for praise, fame, and honor. You will be a consecrated people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.

In all their travels, when the column of smoke moved from the tent, the Israelites would break camp. But if the column did not move, they would not break camp.

That day the tent of the words of God's Covenant was set up. The column of smoke covered it. The smoke over the tent glowed like fire from evening until morning. The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke that covered the tent glowed like fire.

Jehovah said to Joshua: You are old and advanced in years. There still remains much land to be possessed. This is the land that yet remains: All the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, from Shihor, which is near Egypt, to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: read more.
from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: The land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, to the east, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon to the Hamath border. All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the children of Israel. Divide it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. Divide this land for an inheritance among the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

The sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.